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How To Ensure Sustainable Gardening Practices

By Betty Walker


Agricultural activities though beneficial have been found to cause environmental pollution. Experts in this field have however come up with remedial measures such as adopting of Sustainable Gardening Practices. The following discussion tries to outline different ways through which you can achieve the benefits of such practices.

The first way to ensure that your garden is utilized to sustain the environment is planting trees. Trees will take excess carbon from the atmosphere and transport it to their roots where it is stored in the soil. The trees can also play a role in bringing a cooling effect during the dry season. You can plant trees elsewhere not necessary at your home if at all you lack site to plant.

The second way of attaining a maintained environment through farming is growing of organic food. The food is produced at the place you live in to minimize the distance that is to be taken before you have food at your reach. This has another advantage in that it will help reduce the utilization of fuels as food is transported from one place to another.

Disposing of your litter both from the kitchen and garden is the other effective practice. The refuse should be dumped in a private compost pit that will form manure to be used in subsequent crop production. This will help in avoiding chemical sources of topping up soil fertility because it may lead to pollution of the environment.

You need to be extra careful on how you manage your crops in the field. Before you think of inorganic sources of soil fertility and pest control, have a thought on any other alternative. You can use compost manure to replenish the ability of your soil and introduce the biological way of controlling the pests in your field.

Some weeds are disastrous to the environment and their effects should be stopped by all means. When you find such weeds at your place, you need to take a responsible action of uprooting or restricting their spread. To ensure that the information gets too many people in a given locality, you can team up with farmers having similar thoughts with you. This way, the knowledge on sustainable gardening will get to be embraced in the society.

Powered farming gears may make agricultural activities easier but they need to be minimally used for sustainable farming. Despite their numerous benefits, you should put into consideration their impact on the environment. Their use is not fully restricted but can be used on rare occasions to minimize their negative impacts on the atmosphere.

Finally, the use of renewable resources in the food production activity is a good idea in maintained agriculture. Before making use of any product in your garden, confirm how it has been manufactured and whether it can be reused. You need also to plant more than one variety of trees in your garden to promote biodiversity and provide a home for the animals.




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